Continue to generate a short name for every file on a file server, it is consume resources unnecessarily (unless one of your applications or OS requires this system of naming).

In this tutorial, we will see how to disable the generation of 8.3 file names , this corresponding to one of the many Best Practices.

II. NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation

the manipulation is to change a value in the registry, rather than through regedit, we’ll do it in PowerShell , it will be faster. Open a PowerShell console as an administrator and run the following command: